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The Rice Room is a brilliant and moving memoir of growing up in Oakland's Chinatown, by one of America's preeminent journalists. Ben Fong-Torres was the third child of first-generation Chinese parents. His father came to America via the Philippines, adding "Torres" to his name to convince immigration officials that he was Filipino, since there were strict limits on the number of Chinese immigrants that were allowed. His mother came into the country...
2) China men
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A history of the men in the author's family. Describes their pains and joys as they become American.
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Born into a family who believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for alternative ways to make sense of the world. And now, in The Opposite of Fate, her first book of non-fiction she shares her thoughts on how she escaped the expectations and curses of her past, and created her own destiny.
5) Maxine Hong Kingston's broken book of life: an intertextual study of the Woman warrior and China men
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"Maureen Sabine's study of The Woman Warrior and China Men aims to bring these divided texts back together with a close reading that looks for the textual traces of the father in The Woman Warrior and shows how the daughter narrator tracks down his history in China Men. She considers theories of intertextuality that open up the possibility of a dynamic interplay between the two books and suggests that the Hong family women and men may be struggling...
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This volume offers biographical sketches of more than 30 notable Chinese Americans including Olympic skater Michelle Kwan; historian Iris Chang; award-winning architect I.M. Pei; artist and designer Maya Ying Lin; classical cellist virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma; Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe; inventor and entrepreneur An Wang; "the first lady of physics," C.S. Wu -- in addition to many unsung heroes of Chinese descent. Also included is a section...
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"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly...
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